The Imp of the Perverse, Edgar Allan Poe
The Imp of the Perverse, Edgar Allan Poe
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The Imp of the Perverse

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Larry G. Jones

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2018

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

Ever want to blame the worst thing you’ve ever done on someone (or something) else? Edgar Allan Poe believes that you don’t have to, and that each time someone does something that is against their best interest they are being visited by the Imp of the Perverse. The narrator of this story, in fact, is visited by this imp after he murders a man via poisonous candle. After thinking he got away with it, he gets a visit from the imp on the streets of his town – and begins to question whether he can hold his secret in any longer.  

About Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on April 25, 2018

This is one of the more structurally unusual of Poe's tales. And that's saying a lot! It begins as an essay in which Poe describes the impulse to do wrong precisely because we know it's wrong. But wait, you might say. That's crazy! People are rational! They'd never do that! This is what Poe called "......more

Goodreads review by Francesc on February 18, 2022

Relato que se adentra en la mismísima psique humana. Empieza como si fuera un estudio filosófico de la conducta humana y acaba revelándonos el sentido final de esa reflexión. A story that goes deep into the human psyche itself. It begins as if it were a philosophical study of human behavior and ends......more

Goodreads review by Mohammed on January 19, 2018

من منا لا يعرف حكاية القلب الواشي التي كتبها إدجار آلان بو في يناير 1843، أو قصة القط الاسود والتي كتبها في صيف نفس العام في كلتا القصتين قاتل بظروف ودوافع مختلفة قام بالقتل، وفي كلا القصتين أنهار وكشف جريمته أيضا بطرق وظروف مختلفة لكن هناك رابط واحد ، يحكيه هنا في عفريت الإنحراف دي أغرب حكاية ممكن تسمع......more